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冷 kanji
cool, cold (beer, person), chill
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
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Kun readings
つめたいひえるひやひややかひやすひやかすさめるさます
Words with 冷
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —冷染染料ice color; insoluble azo dye that is cooled with ice during dyeing; ice dye
- —冷蔵保存chilled storage; refrigerated storage
- —冷凍装置refrigerator; refrigerating equipment; freezer
- —冷凍焼けfreezer burn; freezerburn
- —冷温停止cold shutdown (nuclear reactor)
- —冷凍卵子cryopreserved oocyte; frozen ovum
- —卵子冷凍oocyte cryopreservation; egg freezing
- —冷暖自知spiritual enlightenment only comes through personal experience
- —外気冷房ambient air cooling; cooling with outside air
- —弱冷房車mildly air-conditioned railway carriage
- —冷延鋼板cold-rolled steel sheet
- —深冷処理subzero treatment; deep cooling; sub-zero cooling; sub-zero treatment
- —冷しゃぶrei-shabu; cold shabu-shabu; shabu-shabu where the meat is cooled before dipped in sauce
- —冷却効果cooling effect
- —冷熱発電cold energy power generation (e.g. from LNG)
- —東西冷戦Cold War (between the East and the West)
- —冷間加工cold working (of metal); cold forming
- —冷戦型思考Cold War mentality
- —地域冷暖房regional air-conditioning; community air-conditioning; district heating and cooling
- —電気冷蔵庫electric refrigerator; fridge